Smart motorways were introduced as a cost-effective alternative to road widening, providing increased capacity and reducing congestion on the busiest sections of British motorway. What makes a smart ...

Smart motorways have been a "catastrophic" waste of money, says the president of the AA, with many schemes either losing money or barely breaking even. New research by the motoring organisation has ...

Ever since smart motorways were introduced in the UK in 2006, they have proved highly controversial. The concept was brought in to create much-needed capacity on key parts of a congested road network.

Smart Motorways were once lauded as the future of British motoring, but are now deeply unpopular, and their planned expansion ...

Many smart motorways, are currently failing to offer the value for money expected when they were originally planned, according to newly released reports from National Highways. Two of the ...

A year after the U.K. government halted the expansion of so-called "smart motorways," pressure is growing to reintroduce emergency hard shoulders on nearly 200 miles of national highways. A new BBC ...

There are calls for a smart motorway rule change across some of England's largest motorways. It comes after a man who killed the passenger of a broken-down car on a smart motorway where the safety ...

Originally built to “manage traffic in a way that minimized environmental impact, cost and time to construct by avoiding the need to build additional lanes,” smart motorways were the pioneering idea ...

For many people, the rollout of smart technology across the UK’s road network has been clouded by fears about the removal of traffic-free safety lanes. Traditionally, motorway hard shoulders offered ...

In one of his essays, George Orwell pilloried the use of “political language” – consisting “largely of euphemism, question begging and sheer cloudy vagueness”, said Leo McKinstry in the Daily Express.

Many smart motorways are currently failing to offer the value for money expected when they were originally planned, according to newly released reports from National Highways. Two of the schemes, ...